#Else_Speaks

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So I didn't preorder "Heavenly Tyrant" by @xiranjayzhao because of the delays, I just decided that I'd get it online or in person when it was released.

I genuinely thought it came out at the end of this month, I didn't know it had already been released until I saw it on a shelf today.

My girlfriend managed to swipe it out of my hands before I could pay for it though.....So now it's a Christmas present.

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This might be fun

questions I think would be fun to be asked

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

show us a picture of your handwriting?

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

what made you start your blog?

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

what scares you the most and why?

any reacquiring dreams?

tell a story about your childhood

would you say you’re an emotional person?

what do you consider to be romance?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what are you doing right now?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

name 3 things that make you happy

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

favourite thing about the day?

favourite things about the night?

are you a spiritual person?

say 3 things about someone you love

say 3 things about someone you hate

what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

fave season and why?

fave colour and why?

any nicknames?

do you collect anything?

what do you do when you’re sad?

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

are you messy or organised?

how many tabs do you have open right now?

any hobbies?

any pet peeves?

do you trust easily?

are you an open book or do you have walls up?

share a secret

fave song at the moment?

youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

any bad habits?

(this post was stolen from @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak, since it couldn't be reblogged anymore)

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So I know it's probably not what @xiranjayzhao intended, but in Heavenly Tyrant when Qin Zheng drops all airs and graces for the first time and uses his actual accent and dialect, calling a previous campaign "A fucking palaver"

.....Yeah I imagined him with the most exaggerated Cockney accent.

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In honor of Aromantic Awareness Week

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No problem at all 😁

Longtime reader here....I definitely remember having a Garchomp named "Barbol" after one of your characters on one of my Pokémon games.

Also have to fight the urge to ask "Does it pair well with pussy?" when discussing food sometimes because of that one Orc story.

Gasp!

That’s exactly the Pokémon to be named Barbol! Oh my gosh, I love it as both Barbol’s mom and a massive Pokémon fan.

Also, I completely forgot that line. I can’t believe I used to be clever. Thank you so much! Lol

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Nobody Can Help You

Since I'm going to start posting my original Superhero story in a little over week I feel like I should give it a little introduction.

I've had the vague idea to tell my own Superhero story for as long as I can remember really, I've made OCs in every fandom I've been in but I think the first real sparks for this project and idea for a direction to take the concept came when I was watching My Hero Academia. The concept of hero agencies and Superheroism as a for profit industry gave me the idea of "A Lex Luthor type villain would win here, all he has to do is buy controlling shares in the agencies" which steadily evolved and grew into something else.

Other Superhero media, primarily the Web Serial 'Worm' and to a lesser extent things like the Static Year One comics, The Boys and the MCU have helped me solidify the angle I want to take as it's become a trend lately that Superheroes are no longer people doing the right thing because it's the right thing any more, in a lot of cases they're paid employees and/or acting on behalf of a government. This idea, paired with the way the rich and corporations use the government and its' agencies to do their bidding gave me something to work with that I think is more interesting than just another "What if Superman was evil" story.

What if Superman was just in it for the paycheck and benefits, what if he wasn't evil....He just had bills to pay.

How do you protest in a world where Superman helps the riot police.

How do you fight corruption in a world where the rich and corrupt are funding the supposed watchdogs.

How do you live in a world where a Superhero will walk past a burning building because they just clocked out and they're not getting paid overtime to deal with it.

In Port Xavier the Vigilante group 'The Nobodies' are answering the question "When being a hero is just another job, who do you call for help?"

Prologue coming 1/1/25

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A thought on Superhero media within Superhero media

I was having world-building thoughts about "Nobody Can Help You" the original Superhero I'm going to start uploading next year and the idea of Superheroes having sponsorships, merch and tie in media in-universe.

It's and idea that Worm and MHA have and one that the Boys leans heavily on, given that it's a parody and we see that with the Seven playing themselves in a movie about themselves. There's a general consensus that Superheroes would be movie-star type famous.

But I don't think it would be quite like that.

I mean they would absolutely be famous, both individually and as an institution and they would have merch the way sports teams do....But I think their presence and depiction within media in-universe would be different. Superhero media is by nature escapist, something it immediately loses in a world where Superheroes actually exist....So I think it's actually reasonable to say that popular escapist media is actually different kinds of fantasy and sci-fi which don't feature Superhumans at all. Where you'd expect to actually see Superheroes in the media in this scenario would actually be in a plethora of Copaganda-type TV shows.

In a world with Superheroes the flash would cameo in Brooklyn 99 and Lex Luthor would be funding an NCIS style show about good, non-powered cops reigning in characters who were clearly aimed at the Justice League.

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So I'm working on my own original Superhero story (Which I plan to start posting next year, titled "Nobody Can Help You")

One of the things I've really tried to pay attention to and utilize is the extent to which a characters' super hero/villain name and identity can be used to establish their character.

It's something that honestly I feel like a lot of the genre overlooks a little.

A characters' costumed alter-ego is something they chose for themselves a lot of the time and the name they've chosen should sound like something that character would pick, something that fits their personality and background and in some cases hints at their history and even things like their level of education.

Or in the cases where their super identity was one they didn't choose for themselves the name can just as easily reflect that, is it a clinical sounding project name/serial number? Is it something that was picked out by the media during a press release?

And the best part....Is that absolutely none of this precludes the use of puns.

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Nobody Can Help You Fanart:

I've just been shown the first official fanart based on my original Superhero story "Nobody Can Help You"

It's the Kaiju from the prologue, "The Quacken"

The artist (Full disclosure it's my girlfriend) isn't on Tumblr but I'm reposting this with permission and you can find the original on Instagram

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So I started reading Hand Jumper last night and....

Ryujin is Amy Dallon dressed as a Pokémon protagonist.

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Worm horror fanfic where Kaiser is Earth Bet's Andrew Tate

In my head he already has the vibes of Richard Spencer so is it really that much worse.

I think the residents of Earth Bet would love it if Kaiser fucked off to Romania and was caught there because of an errant pizza box.

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I’d prefer that Legacy Slipstream be a retool of the Seeker mold rather than Windblade, even if it would make her look a lot like G2 Ramjet.

But if this is what we’re gonna do with female seekers then let’s lean into it and do more than one...Give us a Cyberverse Acidstorm, the one from Earthspark with the Buzzsaw arm.

Hell let’s even make a couple new ones or reimagine a background character, what about Twirl, the Japan exclusive pink stealth-jet Minicon?

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My story "Nobody Can Help You" has hit the 500 views milestone on Ao3, which I feel is a decent amount for an original work which is started posting on New Years Day.

I have fan art of my writing now.

Released some new music yesterday.

I'm halfway through reading my fifth book of the year (Faust Eric by Terry Pratchett).

And I picked this bad boy up because I had more than I expected on my wages this weekend:

I'm not doing too bad this year so far.

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Autobots, Transform and roll out....Of the way cos I'm running out of shelf space

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A happy birthday to:

My niece who is turning six today.

My Forty year old Polish coworker

Mewtwo